>> are you 18 by november. >> i turned 17 yesterday. >> the power you have is in the registration you're doing the voting you're doing. people are rightfully worried about what you might do. are you hopeful you'll succeed? thank you so much for being here. thank you. that's all it for the evening. the rachel maddow show starts now. >> good evening. well done tonight. happy friday. this is one of the friday's when not only is today the capstone to what has been sort of insane week of news. you can count on the fact that it's not over. this is not the kind of week that ends on friday night. you can count on the fact there will be a will the of news over this upcoming weekend. as well. we shall not rest. so, it's not over. particularly good to have you with us tonight. there's a lot going on. we use the word bravery when

someone is willing to step forward and do the hard thing do the dangerous thing. because despite the risk it's the right thing to do. when people put themselves out there and put themselves on the line, in order to do what they think must be done. we tend to call that bravery. i don't know exactly what you call it when somebody does the hard thing does the dangerous thing. because it's something that needs to be done. they believe it's necessary for the good of the country. i don't know what you call it when a person does that thing, but they do it in secret. under a cloak of -- bh somebody does the brave thing but they go out of their way to make sure nobody can find out it was them who did it. it's still bravery. but it's like the cat burglary subset of bravery. i don't know what you call it. it's like everybody steps forward and says i am sparta. it's the opposite of that. wasn't me.

not me. instead of people volunteering themselves and putting themselves out there on the line. somebody does the right thing but nobody is willing to admit it was them. i don't know what you call that. that just happened. on russia sanctions. it's weird. you will notice we're not having a federal government shut down. that's because once again they were able to get a big federal government spending bill passed and signed at the very last minute. thus averting what would have been a government shut down. it's a big long bill. there's one section in the bill that nobody in congress nobody in either house and nobody in either party in congress. nobody will admit that they wrote it. quote in a five page section titled countering russian influence and aggression. this big spending bill that got passed into law today. habz a bunch of new specific prohibitions on american

taxpayer dollars going to russia. the bill adds $250 million to the countering russian influence fund. in our own government. it directs a bunch of money towards supporting democracy programs in russia. significant new sanctions against russia. and it quote bans the use of federal funds for entering into new contracts or new agreements to provide federal assistance to the russian federation. this is not just something that's been proposed. this was signed into law today. by the president. but nobody knows who put it in the bill. andrew wrote this up for the daily beast. they did a super headline over this headline. shh. as in don't tell anybody this happened. quote the origin of the russia measures and spending bill remain a mystery. lawmakers are unsure as to who exactly inserted the measures into the spending bill.

i am not sparta. nobody here is sparta. none of us did this. wasn't us. i mean, this is some very specific kind of bravery that we need a new word for. this anonymous congress appears to have worked. we got new russia sanctions today. thanks to anonymous someone. it worked. for a minute it locked like it wasn't going to work. the president woke everybody up with a random curve ball. what a big win it was for him. and the president said this morning i'll veto it. he then didn't veto it. he signed it at the strange event that he announced would be a press conference but it wasn't. because he signed it we didn't get a government shutdown. we got a bunch of russia sanctions written into law. and i don't know who did that.

neither do you. who knows if we'll ever find out. but it's not hard to recognize the reason for the secrecy on that. when the history of this moment and this administration is written, the record will show the last public remarks from secretary of state tillerson before he was fired and the last public remarks from hr mcmaster many both cases the last public thing they said as government officials before the president fired them and removed them from the posts, in both cases. the last thing they said were comments that were very critical of russia. now tonight cnn ronts beyond his public remarks. the last action mcmaster took as national security adviser in the white house before he was fired he over saw a national security counsel process that resulted in a recommendation to the president that the united states

should expel russian diplomats from the u.s. once again. this time because of the russia nerve agent assassination attempt carried out in great britain. national security adviser reportedly over saw that process at the national security counsel. he and the national security counsel recommended to the president he expel russian diplomats. on wednesday. and then trump fired him thursday. now raise your hand if you think president trump will follow that recommendation and expel russian diplomats from the united states as punishment for the nerve agent poisoning he was too afraid to bring up person to person. when he spoke to vladimir putin. think he's going kick out diplomats? even if he doesn't follow that recommendation from the counsel. if he doesn't do that, past peerngs suggests he won't. he'd never the less is going to have to implement these sanctions. and these new funding restrictions against russia.

and that's because some anonymous member of congress put on a ski mask and pried open the window and snuck it into the bill and got away without anybody knowing who did it. courage. so, things are weird. even more than usual. it's been a helter-skelter news cycle. major headline today was trump aids are at their wits end. reports that in the middle of president trump threatening that he was going to veto the spending bill and shult down the government. reporters were calling the white house to find out if he meant this. if he was serious. whether it was going to happen. white house officials had no idea what to tell reporters. because they were completely blind sided. by the president's behavior today. ask friday whether he was serious about vetoing the bill. one white house official said simply who knows. that's a white house official. who knows? we also learned today that part

of the surprise of the mcmaster firing last night was that white house chief of staff and other senior officials were hard at work planning an announcement that not only was mcmaster going to be fired but a bunch of other officials as well. including multiple cabinet officials. part of the surprise was that they were planning on announcing the firings at once. when all of a sudden the president got on twitter and fired mcmaster. i don't know if that makes you foal bert or worse about stability in the government. it was a shock to everybody the national security adviser was fired. but only because a whole bunch of other people at senior levels were also supposed to be fired at the same time. and those other people haven't been fired. yet. so we're still waiting for those firings to happen. do those shoes still drop? even among white house. the firing and hiring of john bolten was timed by the

president to distract from one particular interview that aired last night on cnn. in karen mcdougal discussed in detail what she says was a serious ten month long extramarital affair with the president. capped off during the presidential campaign. with a hush money deal facilitied by the president's friend. a significant campaign finance violation and it was illegal fraud by the president's personal lawyer. michael cohen. acting on the president's behalf. that interview was last night in the 8:00 hour. 90 minutes before air time is when the president announced he was firing the national security adviser. that timing a surprise both to the national security adviser and to the guy who he announced would be getting the job next. and if the speculation even tr within the white house is correct, that that is what drove that timing. and effort to distract from that

interview. if the speculation is true. that the national security adviser to the president of the united states was fired to distract from karen mcdougal interview. heaven help us. for whatever this president and this white house are going to do to distract us this weekend. the stormy daniels is due to air sunday night on 60 minutes. what do you do to distract from the second interview? in the you have to buy me tacos staff betting pool on this. my pick is mike flynn early pardon. pardon on early sunday afternoon. i do really love tacos. it doesn't mean i'm rooting for that out come. i'm expecting that's what we'll get. i have a square. mike flynn pardon and my timing early sunday afternoon flt we'll

see. the dow dropped another 424 points today after plunging 724 points yesterday. this latest plunge appears to be due to the president's actions. due to the president's new economic attacks on china. china saying that it will rialuate launching its own economic attacks on u.s. manufacturers and farmers. who export key products that china singling out for retaliation. pork and apples and steel pipe. all the business reporting is china is gerding for a full scale trade war. with the united states. due to the president's actions. if so we'll look back at today as the initial vol lvolley of te war. the dow dropped 1,400 points. i mention this weekend is expected to be newsier than usual. that's in part because of the stormy daniels interview scheduled sunday night. it's also because of the expectation that the president or the white house might do something weird or dramatic to

try to distract from the interview sunday night. it is also expected to be a very news weekend because tomorrow is expected to be a big freaking march in washington d.c. and around the country. the march against gun violence. the biggest march willing in washington. hundreds of thousands of people. 800 marchs are expected around the country and the word. in solidarity with the florida school shooting survivors. on the occasion of the march the boston globe has done something interesting. this wrap around front edge op ed. i think this is very interesting. in keeping with the way the kids who survived the shooting have recentered the debate on guns and made things seem possible that six weeks ago wouldn't even worth considering. this wrap around in the globe also makes a case for basically

not just recalibrating the debate. but recalibrating what we consider to be central information for the national debate about guns and gun violence. the boston globe is specifically important. massachusetts should be seen as america's gun violence success story. and central about approaching gun violence as a country. massachusetts has the lowest gun death rate in the country. 3 and a half gun deaths per 100,000 people. which is a lot. but less than the united states. if the rest of the country emlated massachusetts and brought their rates down to massachusetts. that would save 27,000 american lives per year. 27,000 people wouldn't die. if other states were able to do what massachusetts has done. with their gun violence rate. so it's an interesting approach. the globe with this op ed section is trying to put at center of the debate what

massachusetts has done right. lt kinds of policy in place in massachusetts that have resulted in this best out come. in the whole country. so other states and the federal government should think about copying it. as a best case scenario. best practice example. on the occasion of tomorrow's march whether or not you are participating in d.c. or your home state. or whether or not you know anybody going to this thing. i think it is helpful to approach the challenge being posed by the parkland survivors from base of information. framing that isn't necessarily something that it defined by the nra. they have been such a driving force in how we talk about guns in the country. that they have shaped the terms on which we think about it. think about it from the massachusetts success. on this subject instead. as the globe notes in there wrap around op ed tomorrow. 78% of american adults don't own a gun.

statistically speaking it is way more normal in america to not own a gun. 78% of american adults don't own a gun. half of guns nationwide are owned by 3% of americans. even among american gun owners. most american gun owners support fairly serious reform. on gun policy designed to reduce gun violence. i think that's why people will be surprised by the number of people who turn out in the streets tomorrow. the people will turn out in dc and the number of people in these hundreds of events around the country. and there have been some small changes. there were modest gun reforms signed spoo law in the nra friendly state of florida. where the shooting happened. in the big spending bill the president got weird about. but signed today. there is a provision in the bill to undo the prohibition that has stopped the centers for disease control from studying gun violence. that enforced ignorance

provision in u.s. law is it the most important thing in term of gun safety but it is something. people have been complaining about it. nobody was able to change it before now. it just changed. the president has decided part he wants to work on is bump stocks. an after market accessory you can attach to the rifle to fire faster. the justice department will pursue regulations to ban or more strictly regulate those accessories. so, the nra would have you believe that any new gun regulation, any gun safety reform is end of the constitution. impossible and imagine. impossible to hope for. we're about to find out what is possible if you stop listening to them. sdp start listening to literally everybody else who is affected by gun violence in the country. and tomorrow is a big part of

that. and on that subject a sort of strange thing emerged. concerning john bolten. the man who president trump announced yesterday as the new national security adviser. since that announcement reporter tim mac turned up a strange video. this video from 2013. featuring john bolten. can we drop the lower third on the screen. thank you. i want to play a tiny bit. you have to see the subtitles. while he's talking. >> thank you for this opportunity. to address the russian people on the 20th anniversary of the adoption of the russian constitution. today, you're engaged in historic debate about the possible expansion of your freedom. should the russian people have the right to bear arms? >> you see the subtitles in russian. npr reporting today on what they're calling boltens curious appearance in a russian gun rights video.

this video from 2013. he is associated with the nra. at one point he was a member of the nra international affairs subcommittee. 2013 he appeared in this video. that was directed to a russian audience. not jus a generic video supporting the concept of gun rights in russia. it was a video made on behalf of a russian group. called the right to bear arms. it was founed by a russian politician. he has spent several years cultivating strong and sketchy ties with the nra in the united states. including deputy speaker of the russian parliament. and internal security services. and according to to reporting by several weeks ago the fbi is investigating whether this russian politician and his group the right to bear arms somehow illegally funneled russian money into the trump campaign. in 2016.

using the nra as their conduit. now, as you know we have already had one trump national security adviser end up in an fbi investigation into russian influence in the trump campaign. that didn't end well. now it appears we have another. and it's not just the gun thing. he may find himself in the middle of that investigation. not just on the nra russia money side. also because of this. this is an ad that john bolten made for his super pack. imaginatively named the john bolten super-pack. between spring 2014 and fall of 2016 bolten super-pack received $5 million from robert mercer. the biggest of the trump donors and funder behind steve bannon projects including breitbart. and cambridge analytica. he got $5 million from mercer. what did he spend that on? well, more than a million

dollars he vovled back to robert mercer. shovelled back to cambridge analytica. he used mersers money to hire cambridge analytica. which is also funded by robert mercer. he's taking money from mercer and spending it at another mercer funded entity. the reason cambridge analytica is so controversial right now. they fired their ceo this week and under investigation and sparked facebook and this country. is because of new revelations from a cambridge analytica whistle blower. who says the firm used e listly e quired facebook data from tens of millions americans to run the core business of the operation. in the case of john boltens super-pack. cambridge analytica reportedly used that american facebook data to make ads for candidates who bolten supported. but also appear to have used boltens pack as a way to try to

get more americans data off of facebook. the times reviews the agenda of a 2014 meeting. where the company explained the company wanted to use the voter contact list to direct people toward the facebook app. that would be the facebook app that cambridge analytica used to rip off personal data from 50 million americans. who never consented to their facebook stuff being used in that way. the associated press reports that special counsel robert mueller is scrutinizing cambridge analytica. and connection to the donald trump campaign. so, this is the third donald trump national security adviser. whatever you thought of michael flynn and hr mcmaster. now that he's out, you should know the new guy is going to start that job with potential entanglement in two different fbi inquiries. one into the nra. and whether the nra was a

conduit for russian money into the trump campaign. and one into cambridge analytica. and what its role was during the trump campaign including its relationship to the russian attack. being national security adviser is a hard job. being national security advise ir while being personally linked to two ongoing fbi counter intelligence investigations, that's not just going to be hard. that's going to be awkward. but there's a lot more to get to tonight. about john bolten. and a rip roaring story involving an attempt at a $10,000 secret political pay off. secretly recorded phone calls that we have and will play and a sad sick horse in alabama. i kid you not. it's friday. friday's are always weird now. stay with us. lots to come.

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a dog if the dog needs to take medicine the dog need to take a pill. you can't talk the dog into taking the pill. you have to hide it in something awesome. i know some people do it with peanut butter. i'm partial to cheese. or maybe a sausage or something. today i learned that if your you're a horse person, when you have this the same problem of needing your animal to take medicine. it's a bigger problem than it is with a dog. you can't solve it with cheese or sausage. because horses are big and the amount of medicine they have to take is often very big too. you need to take more drastic measures. i learned this today because of steve bannon. i learned this today from a recording of a phone call that was released by the "washington post."

>> crush up the pills with a sledge hammer. put it in the sweet feed. i had no idea. sledge hammer. that phone call is between a lawyer in alabama. who has a horse with swelling. and acquaintance of his. their conversation happened this past november. november 2017 in the middle of the astounding special u.s. election. electing a democrat. the conversation about the horse pill and sledge hammer. it took place a few days after a woman had gone public with the eyebrow raising accusation. that the republican candidate in the senate race had initiated a sexual encounter with her when she was 14 years old. and he was 32.

that taped conversation between eddy sex ton the horse guy. and the reason this recording was leased by the "washington post" tonight. is because that conversation concerns a fairly jaw dropping new story line in the scandal. which involves former white house chief stat gist steve bannon. the horse cure the lawyer is describing at the beginning of the call is throughout this taped phone call that lays ou the plot, so central to the story. throughout the call, you will hear the very loud sound of eddy crushing up horse pills with a sledge hammer. you'll hear them talking about this plot. then the bang bang through the call. that's the sledge happen hammer of the pills.

you can really meet him whenever. that's fine. bang. what they're talking about there is the prospect of meeting up with steve bannon. at the time he was no longer in the white house. he was the editor in chief of breitbart news. bannon and breitbart were huge boosters of the candidacy in alabama. then when it came to the general election, and moor is facing the accusations. this is the story laid out tonight in the "washington post." the woman who made the accusation went public with her story in early november.

she turned to eddy sexton the childhood friend. to be her lawyer. to help her manage the media skutny that was sure to follow. a couple days after the story became public, eddy sexton's long time friend the guy we heard him talking to on the phone. a roy moor supporter. he got in touch with eddy and asked him to meet up. he brought along his business partner. dave vi mentioned he knew steve bannon. the executivemented to talk about whether his lawyer eddy sexton would say publicly he didn't believe the accusations from lee. sexton says gary or told him he could collect $10,000 and possibly more. if he did that. eddy sexton said he was disturbed by the offer was intrigued by the offer to meet steve bannon. he said he had the money for

him. but then other people entered the picture. mat boil. the washington bureau chief of breitbart news joined me. minutes later the jerusalem chief joined them. on the table was a notebook open to page that contained the handwritten statement that he was expected to sign. the one disavowing this accusation from his client. he said they started discussing the possibility of issuing a stadium statement. under mining his credibility. he told them he didn't see anyway he could make a statement disparaging his client. he would lose his license. and hadn't even asked about the details of her ak sag"anderson 360" -- accusations. the breitbart guys tell me that's not really the point of whether or not anybody believes you. it's just getting other information out there.

the statement which eddy sexton provided the post. they wanted him to sign. said this. handwritten. after reviewing the allegations after taking my client there's no sufficient evidence to back them up and the case strains. i decided since i would have difficul difficulty representing a client i don't believe in. i have to recuse myself have the case. i hope lee the best. that's the statement they wrote for him and tried to sign. offered him ten grand to sign. he never signed that. later that day he recorded a phone call. with his buddy. >> did they pay y'all money? >> no.

make a little bit. make money now. it's the implication now and down the line we'll go to d.c. "washington post" spoke to both.

for this story. they acknowledge trying to get the lawyer to make this statement under cutting his clients accusation. they acknowledge arranging a meeting between the lawyer and the reporters. they wouldn't directly answer questions about whether money was offered. they tracked down video evidence at a roy moore fundraiser on november 1. hosted by senator ran paul. also this video appearing to basically be roy moor's wing man in alabama later that month. in a statement yesterday. roy moor said they had attended rallies but the campaign wasn't involved in any effort to pay the lawyer. quote i nor anyone else in the campaign offered anyone money to say something untrou. nor did i or anybody else authorize someone else to do such a thing. spokesman for steve bannon said he couldn't be reached for

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"washington post" just published a remarkable story tonight. about roy moore the republican can at a time for senate in alabama last year. dogged in the final leak of the campaign by accusations he pursued or initiated sexual encounters with girls when they were teenagers. as young as 14.

and he was in his 30s. a lawyer for one of the women says during the campaign he was approached by two moor support rs and reporters from breitbart news. he says he was offered 10,000 tlars and the chance to hang out with white house official steve bannon. if he would drop his client. and publicly say that her allegations against roy moore were a lie. the lawyer also has recordings of his phone calls to pack back up his story. incredible reporting from the "washington post" tonight. led by investigative reporter. thank you for being with us. congratulations on a bizarre scoop. why is this coming out now? >> the lawyer eddy sexton was reluctant to talk about this. for months. he considered going public before the election. but had spoke with lee and told us that she preferred that nothing that he did be perceived as an effort to influence the

results of the election. there were other complications. these two men happen to be his compliants. in a small civil case. he had concerns about whether he wanted to go public. another factor was that gary the man you hear on the tape is a long time friend. who he's known for decade. which explains why they spoke so frankly. >> if there weren't money involved. if this was guys that knew each other and some supported roy moore. and this woman. and were trying to talk each other out of this. or talk each other into playing a specific role around this that took some negotiation. that would be itself be an interesting human drama in alabama in the middle of the story. but there's this $10,000. that this figure that surfaces in the story. how much were you able to tell

about the reality of that offer? was $10,000 secured? was it available to be paid? do we know who put that money up if we believe it was there? that would make it a much more serious matter. potentially criminal. >> eddy sexton in the recent interview dwe with him over the course of many weeks. extensive interviews. truly believes his friend gary was offering and was repaired to give him $10,000. a huge unanswered question is where would the money have come from. interesting fact here is that gary and burt the two men that approached eddy sexton have never donated as far as we can tell to any election. in alabama or federally. so these are two men who are don't customarily reach into sthar own pockets to help a campaign.

and haven't been politically active. so it does raise the question why money was brought up in the context. in this particular case. >> and the other thing they were offering was a chance to spend time with steve bannon. with the implication maybe some work some paid work might derive from a contact. is there reason to believe they actually knew steve bannon or had contact with him? >> so bh you listen to the tape, you could easily dismiss this as a guy who just puffering. a guy who is boasting. but doesn't really have these connections. one of the things we were surprised to find after we listened to the tape kp brought the you know a reasonable amount of skepticism to it. was that these videos surfaced where both gary and bert attend attended functions and campaign events with bannon and the

candidate roy moore. we were surprised when we went to interview gary and bert. both of them spoke about bert daves close relationship with bannon. they wouldn't explain the origin of the relationship or nature. they were comfortable talking about berts relationship with steve bannon. >> incredible stuff. "washington post" investigative reporter. who i feel like i want to follow you around. you keep stumbling upon breasting unexpect breasting interesting stories. much more to come today. what a weird day. stay with us. ♪

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sparked speculation. if he was getting fired. you might remember from this show there was a response online that we singled out here because it hit like a thunder bolt. if bolten replaces mcmaster and i have heard kelly likes bolten. we're all going to die. that was from colin call. now that that's actually happened. now that mcmaster is out and bolten is in. he isn't saying okay we're all dead now. but he is still being pretty freaking stark. this is what he has just written for the foreign policy. the headline john bolten is a national security threat. mr. kaul is making a argument. but just like that initial tweet it's about as serious as a heart attack. joining us now. and former national security adviser to the vice president. thaurng for joining us tonight.

appreciate your time. >> great to be with you. >> you alarmed me. i respect your expertise. and think of you as a non-hyper bollic person. you were setting often early alarm. he would be a terrifying choice. why did you single him out? >> the tweet you mentioned was a little bit of black humor in a dark moment. there are genuine concerns. there seems to be a bolten play book that goes back frankly to the iraq war. that play book goes something like this. take a threat, hype it. base it on questionable intelligence. define it as imminent and say that diploma si is a fools errand. with rogue regimes and claim the only answer is military action. including preventive action and regime change. that was the play that bolten supported and the bush administration towards iraq. and the play he supports towards north korea and iran today. >> he has argued both in his

many appearances on fox news and op eds. that the united states should not just take a harder line towards iran and north korea. but that we would be perfectly justified phrase, with starting with both of them. with yuan latly moving ahead without the support of our allies to bomb them and end the regimes in those countries by starting wars. how do you know in john bolton or anyone whether a person is making an argument like that from the safety of an op-ed writer's position and whether somebody actually having the influence to bring an end like that about might be more cautious? how can you tell? >> in this particular case i think we have a track record of him making the same arguments inside government when he worked for the bush administration first as an undersecretary at the state department and then the u.s. ambassador to the united nations and he's consistently made it out of

government. it's the same arguments he's making today about north korea and iran he was making about the entire axis of evil as george bush called them. so the concern a lot of analysts have is we're entering an extraordinarily sensitive two months with north korea and iran. we have trump apparently going to meet kim jong-un by the end of may, bolton will be his national security advisor in the context of that summit and he's already pessimistic about diplomacy and believe it is summit should only happen so we can get on with the bombing. and also iran, the president has to wave whether to wave the sanctions associated with the nuclear deal. and the president said he wouldn't do it unless they fix the deal, and john bolton doesn't think it's fixable. so in about six weeks, we could

have a train wreck on two big national security issues. >> collin kahl, former national security advisor to vice president biden. i wanted to talk to you because of your stark take on this. i don't feel any better but i'm better informed thank you for being with us, i appreciate it. >> thanks. >> to under score what he said about the summit happening so he can get it out of the way and start the bombing, he's paraphrasing but that's the argument that john bolton has made about president trump meeting kim jong-un. it would be good to have these conversations over soonsz possibas soon as possible a. building on over a hundred years of possible. america's number one shave at lower prices every day. putting money back in the pockets of millions of americans.

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tomorrow's going to be a really big day. the kids from parkland, florida who survived one of the worst school shootings last month and have been on a tear against gun violence, those kids and others like them are leading a huge march in d.c. tomorrow, hundreds of other marches planned all around the country. msnbc is going to be live all day tomorrow and into the night with special coverage of what is expected to be a big moment in american politics. our politics on this issue can seem stuck sometimes but this part does seem to be on the move. again full coverage live all day tomorrow and into tomorrow night here on msnbc. that does it for us. now it's time for "the last word with lawrence o'donnell" good evening lawrence. >> good evening. i will be out on the streets tomorrow talking to the students